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• WR Berkley reports eye-watering improvement in interest income

  25 January 2024

  Almost 75% of total portfolio is of fixed maturity

• WR Berkley expects "drought, and moments when it's raining money" from alternatives

  27 January 2021

  Arbitrage trading and alternatives pay off for the US insurer in Q4

• WR Berkley reaps $105m gain from New York office block sale

  04 January 2021

  Re/insurer lists out outsourced alternative investments after vowing to stick with non-mainstream allocations

• Scor reveals reinvestment freeze at height of pandemic crisis

  06 November 2020

  French underwriter's reinvestment yield is now 1.4%

• WR Berkley's Q2 investment income falls by $100m on COVID-19 impact

  22 July 2020

  Re/insurer keeps to defensive investment stance

• Insurers report $8.7bn investment losses in COVID-19 infected Q1

  04 May 2020

  Reported damage still coming as many European, US insurers expected to report this month

• WR Berkley sticks with alternatives investments despite Q4 turbulence

  29 January 2020

  Re/insurer still expects non-mainstream allocation to outperform in long term

• Reinvestment risk hits yields at global reinsurers

  06 September 2017

  But macroeconomic worries deter greater risk-taking, says Willis Re

• Investment expenses jumped as yields fell for Lloyd's syndicates

  03 April 2017

  As Lloyd's syndicates begin to report their 2016 results, David Walker looks back at the 2015 figures and finds that investment expenses rose about 10% in 2015, but yields fell almost 40%.

• Q2 earnings: investment round-up 28 July

  29 July 2014

  WR Berkley, XL Group, PartnerRe, Montpelier Re